Tag Archives: resurrection

Remembrance 2022

I wonder what you think when you see All Saints church building. Maybe you don’t think very much at all. But just consider it a moment. Imposing, square, stone, set well in its grounds, overlooking the town, as if it’s been here forever, and always will be. But, of course, it hasn’t been here forever. […]

November 13, 2022 – 12:41 pm | By tim | Posted in Wellington | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

That you might believe

“These are written so that you may come to believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that through believing you may have life in his name.” This is why John wrote what we now call John’s gospel. The word, “gospel” means, “good news”, and the good news that John saw in […]

August 4, 2019 – 12:15 pm | By tim | Posted in Wellington | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Because he lives

As I was looking at the hymns for this morning, I was struck that many of the ones that echoed the themes of our reading from Paul’s letter to the church in Corinth were in the “Easter” section of the hymn books. I had a bit of a question mark in my head. How do […]

February 17, 2019 – 12:46 pm | By tim | Posted in Eyton | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (0)

Jesus Interrupting

Does anybody here watch The Good Place on Netflix? If not, I suggest you do, it’s a really interesting exploration of what makes someone good or bad, and whether you can earn your way to paradise by racking up points by being good during your life on earth. It’s clever, witty and thought provoking. Anyway, […]

April 15, 2018 – 3:38 pm | By tim | Posted in Wellington | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Bleeding. Dying.

There is an American writer called A.J. Jacobs who a few years ago published a book called, ‘A Year of Living Biblically’ In this book he recounted his attempt to live for twelve months, keeping all of the Old Testament laws and regulations. He describes a time when he was having an argument with his […]

June 28, 2015 – 3:23 pm | By tim | Posted in Oakengates, Uncategorized, Wrockwardine Wood | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

He is risen!

Over the last few months I have been working with some friends to put on a Passion Play, a dramatic retelling of the events of Easter, in and around Priorslee. Rather than doing it all live, as it was done in Trafalgar Square on Good Friday, we filmed it in advance. I played the part […]

April 6, 2015 – 11:08 am | By tim | Posted in Priorslee | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

All together now…

I wonder if you would do something for me. Would you cross your arms. Now look at them carefully. Which one is on top? Which one as a hand tucked in? Now uncross your arms. Now cross them the other way. Put the other arm on top. Tuck in the other hand. How does that […]

January 23, 2012 – 10:23 am | By tim | Posted in St George's Methodist | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Bones and Breath

This week I have been talking about Easter for some of the local schools. I was at the Easter assembly at Etruscan school and the end of term communion here for St Mark’s school. At both of them I talked about why we have Easter eggs (apart from the fact that we really like chocolate). […]

April 10, 2011 – 12:08 pm | By tim | Posted in Shelton | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Insisting on hope

“Those who will not work, shall not eat.” That was the phrase that grabbed my attention as I was looking at the Bible readings for this morning. “Those who will not work, shall not eat.” The reason that it grabbed my attention is that it sounded like it could have been a headline from one […]

November 14, 2010 – 4:01 pm | By tim | Posted in Shelton | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)